The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-10-06

are both consigned to the same place
during eternity. 1t is possible fol
prohlb Farmer" to drop into
hell through some other hole"
Replying TO the above the Voice
last week makes this statement:
"Rev g. G. Hart who wrote the
first of the above paragraphs makes
no claim to having been a farmer,
but signed "Farmer." as he might
have used any other asonw de-pl7sa,,e
Such a paragraph as the other Is
but all ebulition of the spirit which
abets the liquor power and falls be-
low gentlemanliness.
Coming back to the proceedings
of the meeting. When Mr.. Pond
made Lis reference 10 the Farmer
in the "Yo;ce" howl started up
Several dogs began barking, and
pandemonium continued for several
minutes.
Mr.. Thomas-"Mr. Pond has nc: :
answered my question. He makes
a fling at Mr.. Hart and
the papers. There seem to
bo the points he wishes to
forcibly present.. 1t is i'll becoming
the President of an honorable as
soclation to thus degrade his posi-
ton. The attack on Mr. Hart in
your paper, (speaking to Pond, }
CHASING him with liars and drunk
ards aud consigning him to He'll, is
infamous. 1t is cowardly, it Is
shameful. Mr.. Hart has lived and
moved in this community for al
most hall a century. he is not to
he sent to He'll by a newspaper
paragraph, nor his name, when men
toned IN public meeting in Lo
gun, be the occasion of a howl from
dogs
Rev. Moore-"The editorial re-
iatiug to Mr. Hart in Ohio Oewe-
crat is infamous, and 1 have no
words of condemnation severe
enough to censure it. The article
is scurrulous and ungentIemanly
aad don't become protesting chris
tiau who for years sat in the church
under the ministry of this gray
haired old man.
This speech brought out immense
applause ard the half of the audi.
ence stood up, each one seeming
anxious to speak.
Hansen, pale and .frenzied almost
in manner. got the floor. lie said ::
"When Il paper undertakes to de-
ia me old brother Hart for his hon
est, earnest, christian expression,
and when q reference 10 that at
tempted defama ton is made in a
public meeting, and this brings out
a howl from hoodluns and dogs it
makes me mad. You men who ap-
pIaud are as wretched as the man
who wrote that article, wretcbed as
the paper and suppor: 1t has. EPa-
pers have their place, and so have
men and SO have dogs. 1 stand
here to resent any thing like an at
tempt to cast odium on Father
Hart, or have him bounded down
by newspapers or mob.'
Hansen vas loudly applauded.
But with the cheers there were
heard Kisses, and the indications
were that a lively time was COM
ing.
Mr.. Moore evidently seeing that
blood was warming moved to ad-
journ, and the meeting quietly dis
persed.
For hours after the meeting men
met in groups on the streets and
talked, talked earnestly. The word
''crark" would be flung at one, re-
pied to by the other, "you'ro a
blackguard."
The feeling is intense and only
the conservative good sense of our
people can overt a collision. not of
blood and fire, but contention that
may breed tenGs and bad feeling
for long time TO coma.
We have given the proceedings
of this meeting more space than
We really have to spare for the
reason that the action OF the Law
and Order League entangles itself
with the Agricultural Society OF our
county. and in this, interests all our
country as we'll as town people.
The time and place OF the next
meeting of the League has not yet
been announced.